The Life cycle of a Star

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The Resources: Googling is a place to begin. Or another search engine is fine. Remember that not all site are a useful source of information. Don’t use other students work. Do use sites which end in .edu or are for institutions we know like museum sites and links.

Here are a few suggestions:

1. Star evolution information from Chandra education: stellar evolution This is the interactive guide which goes with the poster we just looked at. Read the page. then Click continue or next.

Some information about each stage is available at each image.

2. http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/cosmic_evolution/docs/fr_1/fr_1_stel.html

3. http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/bmendez/ay10/2000/cycle/cycle.html

more:
4. http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/star_life/starlife_main.html Click your way around this link has information on most stages and has a good overall description. Take the quizzes (though not
all of them work.)
5. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lessons/xray_spectra/background-lifecycles.html Very brief descriptions. ok
6. Great site! http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/ Use the search function at this site and type in your star life cycle.
Since its launch on July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of "Great Observatories."
7. A number of good Images from WIYN Observatory is owned and operated by the WIYN Consortium, Inc., which consists of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). NOAO is operated for the National Science Foundation by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc.

"Stories of Our Sky"

For links about mythology and our sky

This has resources for ancient astronomy and folklore.

This is a link to a relevant section of our online database from our Library. Chose world folklore and folk life. Enter the id and password.

Here are the links I suggested (Windows to the Universe) on your assignment paper:
History and people
Mythology
Notice that there are different reading levels for this site.